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This item appears in our Fall Fashion Preview 2009. Positioned as one of the Swatch Group’s middle-range brands, Union Glashutte offers a wide range of traditional-looking (and feeling) watches imbued with a distinct German watch*** character. Functionality and traditional aesthetic principles are valued over wild designs and experimentation. A handsomely toned square watch, the Union Glashutte Averin Chronograph has a mix of reliable looks and intricate features that come together in a mature-looking timepiece. Classic touches include emphasis on mostly two colors with a dash of a third (here being either red or yellow), as well as the supple leather strap with contrast color stitching. 87 Uniqueness No other timepiece using the automatic Valjoux 7751 movement has been clever enough to use a three-pronged hand and a three-row date indicator to help balance out the dial layout of this quirky movement. The result? A mix of intriguing dial design as well as one of the best executions of the movement’s many features. As such, the Union Glashutte Averin Chronograph includes the time, annual calendar (with the date), date and month, a moon phase indicator, a synchronized 24-hour hand, and a 12-hour chronograph. Despite the crowded dial, the hour and minute hands are thick and easy to read. Read more 84 Durability Classic watches are rarely asymmetric, but the Union Glashutte Averin Chronograph proves the look works in this essentially timeless-looking gentleman’s timepiece. The 42.5mm sided square steel case represents a larger sized watch that is water resistant up to 100 meters. The double AR coated sapphire crystal is glare-free and durable. Relief-embossing decorates parts of the one piece dial, while the hour markers are applied and match the hands in style. Union Glashutte designed the Averin Chronograph to pair suitably with a suit or sandals in design and function -- but is also appropriate for gentlemen who appreciate detailed information in a watch from a 115 year-old company. Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Created in 1845 by Ferdinand Adolph Lange in a small town of Germany, near Dresden, A. Lange & Sohne (A Lange & Sons) faced a catastrophic downfall in 1948 when its owners have been expropriated by the Soviet administration, nevertheless after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the watch-*** brand came back to life, and soon became the pinnacle of today's German finest watch-*** industry, earning thus, a well established place among the world's prestigious watch-*** powerhouses, due to its commitment to creating impeccable timepieces of timeless beauty and mechanical perfection.Their new model, the A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange “Pour le Merite” perfectly reflects the brand's extraordinary tradition and commitment to creating amazing wristwatches which embody the watchmaker's ideal of timeless beauty and elegance harmoniously combined with rare technical sophistication.Defined by timeless classical refinement, the model features a robust round case, measuring 40.5 mm in diameter, manufactured either from rose gold or platinum, which elegantly combines with the white dial fitted with Roman numeral hour markers and, delicate blued steel hour and minutes hands.At the core of this stylish timepiece beats a manufacture Lange L044.1 caliber, a fascinating masterpiece of engineering compound of 279 hand-finished pieces, equipped with the A. Lange & Sohne's emblematic fusee and chain energy transmission system, a technological innovation which requires an amazing assembling precision an hours of meticulous work. The highly sophisticated mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 21,600 beats an hour and ensures a 36-hours power reserve. The German traditional sober elegance is furthermore reflected by the amazing architecture of the movement, which feature bridges manufactured from untreated German silver and furthermore embellished with Glashutte ribbing pattern, also we must mention the hand-engraved balance-cock, escape and wheel bridges, as well as the fired-blued screws and the two jewels from a total of 33 set in gold. The aesthetical purity of this model s furthermore carried into the clean elegance of the dial manufactured in enamel technique and fitted with three-tiered motif. Furthermore, the watch is secured to the wrist with a stylish brown crocodile leather strap, and it is available in a limited edition of 200 rose gold watches, and only 50 platinum timepieces. A. Lange Sohne Richard Lange “Pour le Merite” Watch Pictures Gallery A. Lange Sohne Richard Lange, 8.5 out of 10 based on 4 ratings